The many ways in which informal power shows up in civil society organizations
The many ways in which informal power shows up in civil society organizations
Our question
How can we as civil society entities be more self-aware of how *informal* power shows up in our organizations?
How can we as leaders and managers be more self-aware of how forms of power that are not related to positional power play out?
This has been on the mind of many of us in the past few years.
My colleague-consultant Esther Kwaku who also runs the neat social enterprise the Nerve Network and I did some work earlier this year which, amongst many things, surfaced insights around the fascinating ways in which informal power plays out in our organizations. Some of these ways you will be aware of; others may certainly cause you to reflect on what’s really happening in our organizations — even during our attempts to shift and share power. The result is a thought-provoking list, we think.
Adding a visualization
And then Dorothy Nyambi, CEO at the development agency MEDA and her colleagues took it upon themselves to commission a sharp graphic designer to visualize the list – so that they too could use the content. Thank you, MEDA!
The result
Result? Voila! Download your copy of the visualization of the many ways in which informal power shows up here:
PDF version of the Informal Power viz
PPT version of the Informal Power viz
How does informal power show up in your civil society organization? Feel free to use the content as well in your work (please credit us as creators, of course). Enjoy having good conversations about this!